Using periods (and other forms of punctuation) and knowing when to end a sentence are very important. If you don't end a sentence appropriately, the intended meaning can be changed, or it can be misunderstood. Sometimes the meaning is simply incomprehensible.
When a person learns to write English sentences and compositions, one common problem is writing sentences that are too long. When a sentence ends too quickly, it is called a sentence fragment.
When a sentence has too many ideas and runs on too long, it is called a run-on sentence. If you have this problem, don't worry. It is quite easy to fix.
The first thing you need to do is identify when a sentence is a run-on. A run-on (or run-on sentence) is a sentence that really has TWO sentences (or complete ideas) INCORRECTLY combined into one. It is okay to combine two sentences into one, but you must follow some rules.
You might be wondering: "What is a sentence?" A sentence consists of 3 things:
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subject
the person, place, or thing performing or doing the action
1. Two or more words, phrases, or clauses that are similar in length and grammatical form. Also called parallelism.
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2.By convention, items in a series appear in parallel grammatical form: a noun is listed with other nouns, an //-ing// form with other -ing forms, and so on. Failure to express such items in similar grammatical form is called faulty parallelism.
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3.Adjectives should be paralleled by adjectives, nouns by nouns, dependent clauses by dependent clauses, and so on.
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- Using periods (and other forms of punctuation) and knowing when to end a sentence are very important. If you don't end a sentence appropriately, the intended meaning can be changed, or it can be misunderstood. Sometimes the meaning is simply incomprehensible.
When a person learns to write English sentences and compositions, one common problem is writing sentences that are too long. When a sentence ends too quickly, it is called a sentence fragment.- When a sentence has too many ideas and runs on too long, it is called a run-on sentence. If you have this problem, don't worry. It is quite easy to fix.
The first thing you need to do is identify when a sentence is a run-on. A run-on (or run-on sentence) is a sentence that really has TWO sentences (or complete ideas) INCORRECTLY combined into one. It is okay to combine two sentences into one, but you must follow some rules.
You might be wondering: "What is a sentence?" A sentence consists of 3 things: